"Dreamlover" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey, Dave Hall and Walter Afanasieff, and recorded for Carey's fourth album Music Box (1993). Sony/Columbia executives brought in Afanasieff to tone the song down, because they felt the original production was too rough and mellow. It is built around a sample of The Emotions' "Blind Alley", written by David Porter, but uses a Hammond B-3 organ. Its protagonist pictures an ideal man, her "dream lover", as she exclaims: "dreamlover, come rescue me, take me up, take me down, take me anywhere you want to baby, now".
It was released as the first single from Music Box in the third quarter of 1993 (see 1993 in music), and marked the start of a trend of Carey's to use samples as backbones for the lead singles from her studio albums; later examples include "Fantasy" (1995), "Honey" (1997) and "Heartbreaker" (1999). It was nominated.
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